April 25, 2003 Beijing Anyuan Hospital Finds Promising New Way to Prevent SARS Beijing, China -- As doctors and researchers around the world try to find a cure for the deadly disease SARS, a doctor in Beijing Anyuan Hospital has found promising ways to prevent SARS. Dr. Lianjin Chong, President and Director of Beijing Anyuan Hospital and a visiting scholar to Stanford University in 1992, recently invented his own method of preventing people from getting SARS. Currently, he is testing his method among the employees at his hospital in the SARS frequent occurrence danger zone. So far, none of the employees at the hospital has been infected by SARS. "SARS is not as serious as people in Beijing fear. It can be fully prevented by stopping the SARS coronavirus from entering the human respiratory system and by interfering with the virus' activities in the human body." Dr. Chong currently uses a nose spray made of an undisclosed material. "The main entrance of the SARS virus to the human body is through nose. We use this nose spray to prevent it from happening." "In the last four thousand years, China has experienced countless epidemic diseases similar to SARS. People have found effective ways of preventing them from spreading through trial and error. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Empress used a medicinal tobacco to be inhaled to prevent an extremely contagious respiratory disease. It proved to be extremely effective." "In modern Western medicine, same theory applies. Dr. Frederick Hayden of the University of Virginia noted that studies in the 1980s showed spraying interferon up the nose blocks infection by the coronaviruses that cause colds. However, the spray was abandoned for colds because the drug irritates the nose." Source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/22/sars.treatment.ap/ "This material is similar to the functions of interferon without causing irritations to the nose." Dr. Chong can be reached through email at
For more background information, please read the attached Chinese article written by Dr. Chong and/or contact him directly.
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